The Field Museum fuels a journey of discovery across time to enable solutions for a brighter future And we’re on it. 🌎
We fuel a journey of discovery across time to enable solutions for a brighter future rich in nature and culture. Every day we contribute to groundbreaking scientific research thanks to almost 40 million specimens and objects in our collections and over 150 scientists on staff. Discovering, collecting, collaborating, researching, educating, conserving, solving—there’s a lot of work to do.
Operating as usual
Megatherium's hide-and-seek game needs some work. 👀
Giant ground sloths evolved in South America, but as grasslands spread across the land bridge, they moved to and lived in North America until the end of the Pleistocene about 12,000 years ago. 🌿
These 20-foot-tall, eight-ton mega mammals could reach branches out of reach to smaller herbivores and eat avocados whole, dispersing the large seeds as they went. 💩
All that glitters is not gold, but the gold beetle sure does sparkle! ✨
Native to the Americas, gold beetles are part of the leaf beetle family, Chysomelidae. Unsurprisingly, they are named for their striking metallic gold domed shell.
Sometimes, when one life ends, an entire ecosystem begins. When a whale dies, its body can support hundreds of species for decades.
The whale's body eventually sinks to the bottom of the ocean, delivering a new structure filled with nutrients to the seafloor. This model represents a "whale fall" that is about a year old. Its flesh has already become a meal for larger animals, and now bacteria and invertebrates have begun to consume the skeleton.
CLOSING SOON: Less than two weeks left to see special exhibition Wild Color! 🌈
Escape the everyday and appreciate the wonder of the color spectrum by:
🔴 Immersing yourself in sensory rooms organized by color
🟠 Exploring the brightest and boldest hues from our collections
🟡 Snapping prismatic selfies
🟢 Decoding hidden messages that colors send
🔵 Marveling at mysteries hidden in plain sight
🟣 Awakening your senses
Visit now through January 8, 2023. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3HIvV4C
Last-Monday-of-the-year mood. 🙃
If you're still plugged in this week, remember to find a quiet moment to kick back and relax. 😌
This plaster mannequin of a warthog had no worries when it took a load off partway through the taxidermy process in 1945. 🐗
When temperatures dip in North America, deciduous trees lose the leaves they’ve had through spring and summer. This slows their growth and helps conserve the resources stored they’ve stored in their roots for the cold, waterless months ahead. 🥶
Evergreens like the Eastern Hemlock, on the other hand, are able to continue making new food all year long. Their long, thin, waxy needles are well-adapted to store the water they need to stay green and growing. 💚
Uncover more of the meanings behind the colors you see in the natural world in special exhibition , open through January 8, 2023. 🌈 https://bit.ly/3Yxwggk
Drop a 🦕 to holo-hype this holotype!
DYK: the Field is home to the Brachiosaurus altithorax fossil by which its species is known (aka the holotype)? Our first paleontologist, Elmer Riggs, and his team discovered the first specimen of the dinosaur during a trip to Colorado in 1904. It remains the most complete example ever found. 🦴
Stop by the Grainger Science Hub to get up close and personal with a vertebra from the tail of Brachiosaurus and the head of the sculpted sauropod that once sat on our northwest terrace! 🔍
UPDATE: Due to extreme weather conditions, the museum will remain closed to the public on Saturday, Dec. 24. The museum will also be closed on Christmas Day due to previously scheduled holiday hours. We will reopen for regular business hours on Dec. 26.
Stay safe and warm!
Four years ago today, SUE the T. rex was unveiled in a sweet new suite. ⚡️
Drop a 🦖 if you've seen our fierce fossil's new digs!
Moving one of the world's most complete T. rex skeletons gave us the chance to update the fossil to reflect advancements in our understanding of this ferocious meat-eater. ➡️ https://fieldmuseum.io/SUEsMakeover
🎶 A single mom who works two jobs, loves her kids and never stops. 🎶 — Reba SharkEntire
Meet Bubbles, the zebra shark at Shedd Aquarium that made a reproductive “hail Mary pass” rarely seen in vertebrate animals: fertilizing her eggs with her own genetic material in a process called parthenogenesis.🥚
This is only the second known case in which a shark has asexually produced pups when males were available to mate. 🦈
While Field and Shedd scientists are still searching for what causes parthenogenesis, snaps to this girl boss for helping us better understand and conserve zebra sharks. 👏
Read more about Bubbles and virgin birth. ⬇️
The birth, known in science as parthenogenesis, did not involve a father shark — even though two eligible suitors were in the same giant tank at the Shedd.
Take a non-narrated tour of our Nature Walk and discover animal habitats from right here in the Midwest and across the Americas. 🦌
Still don’t believe birds are dinosaur descendants? Check out this book. ⬇️ 👀
Associate Curator of Fossil Reptiles Jingmai O'Connor is the author of "When Dinosaurs Conquered the Skies: The Incredible Story of Bird Evolution": is an accessible, illustrated exploration of dinosaur evolution and how theropods became the birds we live alongside today. 🦖 ➡️ 🐦
Buy Jingmai's book for your budding paleontologist in the Field Store 📕 https://fieldmuseum.io/DinosaursConqueredSkies
Before you call a sweater ugly, consider its source. 💔
tomorrow is as good a time as any to pay some respect to the animals that wool is often gathered from: alpacas. 🦙
Huacaya alpacas like this one have lightweight, fluffy fleece that grows perpendicular to their bodies. Their bulky coats help protect the animals from cold, wind, and rain—just like that cozy, snowflake-covered cardigan in your closet. 🧶
Zoom in and ENCHANCE. 👾
Thought we couldn't top the 4,000x life-size tardigrade in new special exhibition Death? We saw and raised our record-breaking water bear another 9.5x. 💧🐻
Learn more about this "immortal" micro-animal and other death-defying specimens in . 🔍 fieldmuseum.org/death
It's time to deck our hall! ✨
From lighting our long-necked dinosaurs to tinseling Christmas trees, we've decorated different ways over the decades. ❄️ 🦕
Are your holidays brightened with any natural history-themed decor?
Have some time off and looking for things to do in Chicago? It's *hip* to visit the Field Museum. 😗✌️
Get it? We'll see ourselves out... but keep in mind that the Field Museum is open daily from 9 am to 5 pm, closed only on December 25. Tickets at https://fieldmuseum.org
It may be sleeting and snowing in Chicago today, but did you know that the Windy City was once a tropical locale? 🏝
This Silurian reef model in Evolving Planet shows the diverse invertebrates that would have called Chicago home 417 million years ago. Geologists studied the bedrock of the Michigan Basin and learned that it was once covered by a tropical sea.
Heat Miser and Snow Miser: working together to bring you some seasonal sparkle. ✨ 🤝 ✨
🔥 One of the world's largest ruby Topaz gems at 97.45-carat, set in 12-karat rose gold.
🧊 The Schlumberger Bow: 148.5-carat aquamarine in a platinum pin with gold accents and white diamonds.
Our Hall of Gems is closed this week as we make a few updates, but you’ll be able to see both of these pieces again before the holidays. 💎
Those peppers you like are going to come back in style. 🌶
The bright red seen on peppers is a clue for scavenging mammals: “these are spicy!” ⛔️
Birds, however, aren't sensitive to the compound that lends heat to peppers' flavor: capsaicin. The plants may have evolved to become spicy to favor being eaten by birds, who help spread their seeds.🦉💩
Pull back the curtain on nature's brilliant colors, immersing yourself in nature's stripes, shades, hues, and wavelengths at Wild Color. 🌈 fieldmuseum.org/WildColor
SUE’s had a disarming Monday morning. 🦖
Our apex predator’s giving Field scientists a hand— er, forelimb —in researching a gripping mystery: what was the purpose of T. rex’s tiny arms? 🤔
Well-preserved T. rex arms are rare, so CT scans of the bones in SUE's right forelimb at the University of Chicago will be a big step in understanding how the dinosaur moved. 👏
Meet the superpredator with the secret to fast-forwarding through those awkward teen years. ⏩
Six-foot-long, salamander-like Whatcheeria was a lake-dwelling animal that lived long before the dinosaurs. In a new study of the Museum's 350 Whatcheeria specimens, Field researchers uncovered the key to the crocodile-like creature's dominance over present-day Iowa: super speedy growth spurts. 🐊
Read more ➡️ https://fieldmuseum.io/Whatcheeria
🎨: Adrienne Stroup
Filing “Megaloceros” under “animals with next level metal band names.” 🎸
This huge herbivore is commonly called an “Irish Elk”, but it’s actually a deer that lived across Europe and Asia 10,000 years ago at the end of the Pleistocene. 🤘
Think its antlers *look* intimidating? Imagine head-banging while wearing an up to 12-foot-across, 90-pound hat. Megaloceros grew and shed a new set of epic headgear each year. 😵💫
The cutest winter look around. 💙
Arctic foxes are floofy, but fierce. Their multi-layered fur, a thick layer of fat, and short stature help them live comfortably in the treeless tundra when temperatures drop as low as -58℉. 🥶
Sneaking up on prey and avoiding predators is easier when you've got a built-in pair of snow boots. Arctic foxes' footsteps are hard for small rodents like lemmings and mega mammals like polar bears to hear. 🤫
No food nearby? Snow problem: these crafty creatures will dig a den, slow their heart rate and metabolism, and settle for as long as two weeks to conserve energy. 😴
2023 sneaking up like an electric eel in the Amazon. 👀
While collecting fishes in 2018, Field conservation biologist Lesley de Souza and two fellow Colombian ichthyologists (scientists who study fish) were shocked to see this six-foot-long eel, which can emit a charge of as much as 500 volts! 🐟⚡️
By documenting and understanding the area’s diversity of plants and animals, researchers can help aid regional conservation efforts. 🌎👏
🎥: Lesley de Souza
Ah, gift-giving season. Allow our Holiday Gift Guide to take the stress out of finding a science-themed gift sure to create a (positive) reaction.
From jewelry to books and figurines to totes, there's something for everyone on your list in the Field Museum Store. ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/2022HolidayGiftGuide
There are over 1,000 Native and First Nations in North America recognized by the United States and Canadian governments and many more resilient, dynamic, and thriving Native communities yet to be.
National flags are one way Native and First Peoples symbolize their sovereign right to protect their lands and citizens. Many Native Nations in the United States created their flags following the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975: legislation that promised them greater autonomy.
In our new, permanent exhibition Native Truths, you'll see a rotating projection with 66 tribal flags of our 105 Native and First Nations collaborators. As this exhibition changes and rotates to include more , so will this projection.
Learn more about our new approach to telling—and listening to—Native stories. ➡️ fieldmuseum.org/nativetruths
On the Haida Gwaii archipelago off Canada's western coast, poles like these are raised to communicate the lineages and histories of their owners, encourage their souls to pass on, and, ultimately, be reincarnated. 🌳
This model represents a much larger pole that stood on Haida Gwaii in the late 1800s. The original pole was raised to honor and contain the remains of WiiGanaads, an Eagle Chief. Mortuary poles are intended to decay and return to the earth, so the original is no longer standing.
Learn more about how death affects communities in our new special exhibition, . 🔍 fieldmuseum.org/death
"Leftovers?" Star-nosed mole's never heard of 'em. 🍽
This mammal may look mini, but it's the world's fastest eater: it can chow down a massive bite of the worm, insect, or mollusk in 0.23 seconds: about as long as it took you to blink and begin processing this food for thought. 🪱
Even more impressive: star-nosed moles can't see their prey in the dark, damp underground of northern North America's woods, marshes, and bogs: they're functionally blind. 👀
To find their food, these lightning-fast hunters have developed broad feet and extra sensitive noses to feel the world around them: a star-nosed mole's tentacled snout has 100,000 nerve endings! 👃
We're closed tomorrow so our staff can enjoy the day with their friends and family. While we're away, enjoy a heaping serving of turkey DYKs. 🦃 ⬇️
🪶 These birds can have upwards of 6,000 feathers. Up close, the males’ feathers show a multitude of gorgeous colors, from reds and golds to iridescent blues and greens
⚖️ Turkeys are one of the heaviest North American birds, it doesn’t keep it from lifting off: they can fly at an astonishing 55 mph and run at speeds of more than 20 mph.
📢 Only male turkeys "gobble": they use this sound to announce themselves to females.
Instead of saying something you'll regret to a family member at the dinner table this week, shares these choice birds with them. 💙🐦
⏸ Stop scrolling: before a hectic holiday week ahead, take a moment to relax and reflect with us at The Sue Ling Gin Garden.
Classical Chinese gardens date to the 6th century and were originally designed by artists who too inspiration from landscape paintings. A garden was a miniature replica of a natural environment in which the artist used water, rocks, plants, and winding pathways to create a sense of immersion in nature: a sanctuary from the hectic city. ✨
The Sue Ling Gin Garden features eight spirit stones, or guaishi, donated by the Government of Suzhou. They're extravagantly shaped rocks from China's Lake Tai. The largest weighs two tons! 😮
Visit the garden during your next trip to the Field at the end of Cyrus Tang Hall of China.
Giant tortoises? Asteroid impacts? Psychedelics?!
Help us decide what you’ll learn about in our next special exhibition by completing a short survey. ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/ExhibitsSurvey2022
This year for , we wanted to share a few of the moccasins featured in our new, permanent exhibition Native Truths.
These shoes show a range of beadwork and craftsmanship across North American tribes and time: Native artists today still make styles from 100+ years ago to ensure that traditions, knowledge, and aren't lost.
✨ Mocs made by Maisie Lone Dog (Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes) in 1915. Former collections staff member Mavis Neconish (Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin) reconnected these shoes to a matching dress more than 30 years after they arrived at the Museum.
✨ Haudenosaunee mocs with raised beadwork, made by a Penobscot ancestor between 1900 and 1910 and co-curated by Karen Ann Hoffman (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin).
✨ Diné (Navajo) mocs, or "kélchi" made by Brent Toadlina (Diné) with silver buttons made by Nanibaa Beck (Diné) specifically for Native Truths in 2021. The buttons incorporate the phrase "Diné Bikéyah," which refers to Diné ancestral homelands.
The weather outside may be turning duller; but inside the Field, everything's ✨ technicolor. ✨
Special exhibition is what winter dreams are made of: sensory rooms organized by color; the brightest, boldest, and most mysterious hues from our collections; and endless opportunities to snap a prismatic selfie. 📸
Plan your visit 🎟 fieldmuseum.org/wildcolor
Gotta catch 'em all! ⚡️
Wanna be the very best, like no one ever was? Travel far and wide across the Museum to find the plants, animals, and minerals that inspired these Gen I Pokémon. 🔴
Drowzee ➡️ tapirs
Poliwag ➡️ tadpole
Omanyte ➡️ ammonites
Pidgeot ➡️ osprey
Geodude ➡️ smoky quartz
Despite SUE the T. rex's stoney glances and missing heart, our apex predator isn't a scrooge but rather enjoys the holidays. 🕯
However, our fierce fossil apparently doesn't receive enough gifts: "In the interest of benefiting from the change I wish to see, I’ve compiled a gift guide to assist you in your holiday shopping (don’t get used to this seasonally-inspired altruism, mammals: the Theropod Revolution shall resume in 2023). 🦖
Check out SUE's dino-mite gift-giving guidance. 🎁👀 fieldmuseum.io/SUEs2022GiftGuide
Now Open: Calumet Voices, National Stories.
This new exhibition shines a spotlight on the past, present, and future of the region at the southern end of Lake Michigan, as well as the people who have fought to protect it. 💙
Learn more ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/CalumetVoices
On we share this beaded bag showcasing American flags. It was created by an Arapaho maker and gifted to the Museum in 1908.
Native peoples have served in the United States military since the American Revolution and, to date, have the highest per-capita involvement.
Join us tomorrow to celebrate at the Field. ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/celebrateNAHM2022
Coela-cant-h even? We sea you. 😭
A midweek reminder from this deep-sea-dwelling fish to take a breather if you feel like you're caught underwater. 💙
The Coelacanth has been swimming for more than 400 million years—that's older than dinosaurs! Though these rare fish can grow to more than 200 pounds and 6 feet long, a living specimen wasn't caught until 1938 in East London, South Africa. In the early 1950s several more were captured off the Comoros islands. 🎣
Catch some R&R with our fin-tastic replica near Quetzalcoatlus outside of Evolving Planet. 🦖
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Choose your champion: who won this Cretaceous staring contest? 🏆 🦖 SUE 👀 Quetzalcoatlus
We’re talking about the importance of collecting fish in the Amazon as part of our #LatinxHeritageMonth programming.
This performance from Comunidad Kichwa Runa, a group of Indigenous Kichwa people from Ecuador living in Chicago, celebrates #IndigenousPeoplesDay.
New 1-mile PR for PR 2081, but not *quite* a qualifier for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon. 🦖💨 Good luck to all of this weekend's runners! We'll be cheering you on while our T. rex heads back into training. 👟 🎉
Gabo Yarlequé Ipanaqué es parte del equipo de Acción en Ciencia que ha protegido 28.9 millones de acres de naturaleza y contando. 🙌 Gabo es un Analista Geoespacial y Cartógrafo dentro del equipo, brinda un aporte invaluable para sus colegas que se embarcan en inventarios rápidos: viajes intensos de tres semanas para estudiar y registrar datos en la región de los Andes y la Amazonía. 🌎 Gabo habla sobre la importancia de crear mapas donde no solo se cuente una historia sino que también sean parte fundamental de estudios y esfuerzos para la conservación, y ofrecer un apoyo a comunidades, organizaciones locales, nacionales e internacionales para protección de sus comunidades y territorios. El enfoque no es proteger la naturaleza de las personas, sino proteger la naturaleza con las personas. ✨ Estamos celebrando el ingenio científico y las contribuciones de nuestro personal Latinx. 👏 - Gabo Yarlequé Ipanaqué is part of the Action Science team that has protected 28.9 million acres of forest and counting. 🙌 Gabo is the Geospatial Analyst and Cartographer inside the team, and he provides invaluable support for his colleagues that take part in Rapid Inventories: Intense three weeks in the field, where they study and register data in the Andes Amazon. 🌎 Gabo talks about the importance of creating maps that not only tell a story, but also how they need to be an essential part of studies and conservation efforts, and offer help to local communities, local, national and international organizations, providing protection of their communities and territories. The focus is not to protect nature from people, but to protect nature and its people. 👏
Today, on #FieldGivingDay, our goal is to reach 1,000 donors in support of our mission: inspiring action and driving community science, scientific education, and conservation efforts in the classroom, across Chicago, and around the globe. 💙 Give today ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/givingday We're so grateful for your SUEpport. 🙌 🦖 UPDATE: There's still time to give! Thanks to your dino-mite help, We're only 285 donors away from our 1,000 donor goal. 👏
SUE celebrates #EarthDay every day! 🌎 Our Sustainability Officer Carter O'Brien helps us implement initiatives throughout our LEED-certified building and surrounding native gardens. Things like: switching to LED bulbs, recycling and composting, reducing single-use plastics and paper, partnering with local farms and offering vegetarian options in our restaurants, getting staff involved in our green initiatives, and more. In the past 10 years, the Museum has gone from an 18% waste diversion rate to close to 60%. Carter is frequently asked if what you put in the blue bin at the Field “actually gets recycled?” He's toured Lakeshore Recycling Systems (LRS) and is happy to report that they sort, process, and sell approximately 80% of the materials they receive from the Field to users in the United States. We've also recently joined Rheaply—a resource-sharing app that helps teams across the Museum browse, donate, and share equipment and supplies. When it comes to saving the Earth, there's always more to do. But we're grateful to Carter and his team for leading the way in our sustainability efforts at the Field.
Protecting the planet is a big job, but there are small steps we can all take to help protect and restore the places that are critical to life on Earth. 🌍 Soledad Maristany, our Urban Conservation Educator, introduces 3rd - 5th grade students to local ecological restoration through the environmental education program Mighty Acorns. Learn more about their work. ➡️ https://www.fieldmuseum.org/visit/daily-events/mighty-acorns
Stop scrolling and pause for a poem at our digital rest stop. ⏸ Poet-in-Residence Eric Elshtain reads “Ode to Máximo” and “Such Frozen Zoos”—just two of his exhibit-inspired poems you’ll find showcased around the Field this #NationalPoetryMonth. ✍️
We’re celebrating #EarthMonth with the sights and sounds of spring in our native gardens. 🌱 Enjoy a few minutes of non-narrated mindfulness. What birds do you hear? 🐦 Can you identify any plants? Soon this sustainable landscaping will be in full bloom providing flowers for pollinators. 🐝 In the meantime, our native gardens provide refuge for migrating birds, and the plants increase stormwater retention and carbon absorption. How the gardens look in full bloom ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/NativeGardensGuide
I’m Karen Ann Hoffman, a Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Raised Beadworker from the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin. I’m the student of Samuel Thomas and the late Lorna Hill. When I’m sewing I hear whispers—old beaders from long ago—encouraging me, “keep this up, do this well.” This work stands not for me, but for all those who came before us and all whose faces we have yet to see. Join me at my kitchen table, an ordinary place where the sacred happens. Watch me stitch berries in a characteristic design of Haudenosaunee Raised Beadwork. My kitchen table is also where I work with my apprentices Samantha (Lawien) Carrillo and Christine Munson. Stories are told and the songs are sung. This style of learning—eye to eye, knee to knee, heart to heart—has been with we Haudenosaunee since the beginning. In the new exhibition Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories you can see my beadwork and learn about my Haudenosaunee culture. Come experience #NativeVoicesNativeStories on May 20. fieldmuseum.org/nativetruths
Postdoctoral Fellow Maria Valdes uses meteorites to understand the Earth and asteroids. ☄️ She shows us meteorites from the asteroid Vesta, the Moon, and one that surprised a family when it fell through their gutter! 👀💥
How many Exhibitions staff does it take to display a saltwater crocodile? 🤔 It sounds like a joke, but preparing this 12-foot-long taxidermy reptile for Jurassic Oceans was no laughing matter! Our colleagues from Natural History Museum, London assisted in the multi-step process required to move the crocodile from London to Chicago, then crate to case. 🐊 This video shows the size of this animal, as well as the care that goes into every specimen on display. See this croc and other #MonstersOfTheDeep in person ➡️ fieldmuseum.org/jurassicoceans
SUE got a little too comfortable during remote work.
Darlene Dowdy Pritchett has worked at the Field for over 30 years helping preserve some of the 2.8 million specimens in our Herbarium. 🌿 She ensures these plants are properly dried, glued, and accessible to researchers and students from all over the world for study. Exhibitions Budget Administrator Reda Brooks talks with Darlene about the art and science behind pressed plants and shows us what preparing 30-50 specimens a day looks like.
Valentine’s Day is a day to consider love: romantic love, platonic love, brotherly love, selfless love, enduring love. Mr. Timuel D. Black, at 102 years old became an ancestor in October 2021. He was beloved for his vibrant personality as Chicago’s storyteller, a civil rights leader, historian, educator, veteran, author, humanitarian, mentor, and friend to so many—including staff at the Field Museum. His wife, Mrs. Zenobia Johnson-Black said it best at his memorial, “Tim loved people. He loved justice. He loved teaching and he loved me. Tim loved himself and consequently he could show love to others. He grew up secure in the knowledge that he was loved and that his life mattered.” In celebration of #BlackHistoryMonth, and love of all kinds, we offer a tribute to Mr. Timuel Black. ❤️🖤💚
Even SUE the T. rex takes time to appreciate a good tome or two. 🦖 Since our library's organization in 1894, its holdings have grown to include 275,000+ volumes of books, journals, and other significant collections of manuscripts. 📚 Read more ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/FieldLibrary
Assistant Curator of African Anthropology Foreman Bandama has excavated pottery, studied metalworking, and conducted chemical analyses of glass beads. But all of his work is driven by a unified goal: to highlight African achievements. For more events and stories celebrating Black History Month this February ➡️ fieldmuseum.org/blackhistorymonth
Our Learning facilitator Jeff Schroder delights kids with his dinosaur knowledge daily. 🦖 Now—thanks to a new partnership with WeGo—Jeff is bringing dinosaur delight to pediatric patients all the way at Johns Hopkins Children’s Center in Baltimore. 🙌 Alex is one of these patients, and he's taking a tour of our Hall of Dinosaurs with Jeff as his personal guide. Tour participants virtually control the WeGo robot themselves, zooming about and looking around—all while listening to Jeff and asking him questions. Sharing dinosaurs with more people? Dino-mite! 💯
Going up, or growing up? 🌿⬆️ Our hanging gardens do both! These nature clouds are perfectly self-sufficient floating in Stanley Field Hall, but we occasionally raise and lower them for maintenance or special events. ☁️ Over 1,000 individual plants are housed in four gardens that are fed and watered through a contained system in the ceiling. The cloud structures were 3D printed, with the largest measuring 35 feet across and weighing about 15,000 pounds. fieldmuseum.io/HangingGardens
SUE workshops some new material. See the results at twitter.com/suethetrex
👍 if you agree that SUE is perfect. Wishing you very happy holidays and a relaxing start to the new year. ✨💙
A selfie with SUE the T. rex is a must! 🦖🤳🏽 But don’t miss these other memorable must-sees when you visit ➡️ fieldmuseum.io/MustSeeSpots
It can be a hectic time of year. Take a deep relaxing breath and enjoy this non-narrated walk-thru of our hidden gem: the Hall of Plants. 🌿 These amazing replicas show the incredible diversity of plants and their many uses. The museum’s first plant models were created in 1901 from latex, glass, wire, wax by an acclaimed denture maker.
What can learn from comparing the rise of different civilizations? 🤔 It’s a *big* question—as the MacArthur Curator of Mesoamerican, Central American, and East Asian Anthropology, it’s Gary Feinman’s job to help answer it. 🌏
SUE seeks a sidekick. 🦖
We’re celebrating Native American Heritage Month with Nicole Passerotti: a museum conservator who preserves cultural heritage through studying, restoring, and protecting collections from unintended visitors like moths. 🦋 In addition to helping us renovate our Native North America Hall, Nicole has worked in museums nationwide—including her own tribe’s museum, the Seneca-Iroquois National Museum.
Staff from our Conservation and Collections Management team work to carefully flip and then roll this Silverhorn tipi liner for longterm storage. Tipi liners are used to help regulate climate by directing drafts upward in the structure. This liner was made by the famous Kiowa artist Haungooah Silverhorn and purchased by the Field in 1905. It was originally displayed in 1950 and measures 12 feet long by seven feet wide. The tipi liner was removed from display as part of the renovation of our Native North America Hall. Our staff are working with an advisory committee and over 100 Native American collaborators in numerous ways to create the new space. Our conservation staff are dedicated to the care and preservation of the cultural materials coming off display, as well as those that will be featured in the new exhibition.
We’re adding Cherokee language labels—including Cherokee syllabary—to several of our exhibits during this Native American Heritage Month to help highlight Native cultures. David Jumper, a Cherokee translator and teacher and Tyra Maney, a Cherokee artist, discuss how they designed and created our new labels and their own histories with this 200-year-old writing system.
Dave Spencer and Niyol Spencer (Mississippi Chata/Dine) welcome Native American Heritage Month with an inter-tribal song. Did you know there are currently 574 federally recognized Native American tribes? Join us in celebrating the diversity of values, traditions, and languages that make up the rich cultures of Native American communities this month and all year long. fieldmuseum.io/NAHM2021
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